What is the focus of teaching Latin dance for children?

International standard Latin dance also refers to sports dance, which is divided into five dances: rumba, cha cha, cowboy, samba and bullfighting; the association is divided into : World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), World DanceSport Federation (WDC), China DanceSport Teachers Association (CDTA) and other associations. Let’s take a look at the key points of teaching children’s Latin dance. I hope everyone will adopt it!

1. Basic form

Undoubtedly, the root cause of this problem is the single teaching content. Many grassroots teachers are aware of this problem, but because of their lack of dance literacy, they don’t know how to effectively solve it. Generally speaking, the training that is most easily ignored by grassroots sports dance teachers is flexibility training.

The technology of sports dance requires high flexibility of the shoulders, thoracolumbar, spine, hip joints, and ankle joints. It also requires a strong sense of super straightness in the knees. It only relies on some routines. Teaching methods are difficult to achieve good teaching results. There are some very practical basic methods. The more teachers master them, the more they will come in handy when children need improvement.

2. Music

The correctness of the music rhythm is the most important in judging the competition. Regardless of whether the dance is good or bad, those who jump to the wrong music rhythm will be directly eliminated. This shows the importance of music rhythm. sex. However, many young players do not grasp the rhythm of music accurately, or do not play the music correctly at all, which forces teachers to think calmly: Is this because the children cannot understand the music or is there something wrong with the teaching? The answer is obvious.

Many teachers shout out the rhythm to students while playing music during class, which can easily lead to students' dependence. Teachers should let students count the beats themselves and cultivate the habit of counting rhythm with the music. For students with a congenital poor sense of rhythm, teachers can train them to clap in time, listen to the music carefully, and then catch the heaviest first beat "one", or listen carefully to the unique fourth beat "dong dong" of Latin music. When teaching, teachers can also use congo drums to beat out the rhythm, so that students can intuitively feel the characteristics and feeling of Latin rhythm.

3. Physical

Before taking Latin class, teachers usually lead students to conduct 20-40 minutes of physical training. This is very important, but it should also be noted that the content of the exercises should be helpful to Latin dance, rather than simple kicks, leg presses, and lower forks.

Ballet body training is very helpful to Latin dance. In the fusion ballet training, I will use a few very simple movements: such as practicing wiping the floor, front side, and back side. You can find The feeling of the feet and the floor; for example, in ballet standing, one's feet should be changed to a small figure to stand, also called Latin stance. The requirements are to raise the head and chest, tighten the abdomen and straighten the back, pull the neck upward, press the shoulders downward, and clamp the thighs .

After long-term training, students will develop a good sense of uprightness. In addition, ballet hand positions can also be used for reference, but breathing must be added, as described in this sentence: Hands without breathing are like dry branches, but with breathing added, the hands feel like willows swinging in the wind. , has vitality. ?

4. Basic Steps

When I first started teaching, I didn’t pay much attention to basic steps and training. I would spend more time studying gold, silver, bronze medals and routines. However, I gradually discovered that once a student is confused by the flower steps and cannot calm down to practice the basic steps, it will be difficult for his level to be greatly improved.

So in class, I will arrange an hour of basic step training: slow down the music speed, perform Kuk Lacha from the original position (8-figure to hip), squeeze (change center of gravity), square step , Kuklaccha training in 4 directions (front, back, left and right), New York step, fixed point turn, hand in hand, forward and backward, etc.

5. Dance Movements

It is said that children should learn dance step by step, and laying a good foundation is the key. However, during the examination process, I rarely see steady improvement. A child whose mentality, all movements are clean and neat, and there is no impurity in the dance. The vast majority of children, whether they have gold medals, silver medals, or bronze medals, can find that their dances are more or less irregular.

Of course, the inaccuracies of some movements are related to the child's physiology. Maybe their muscle ability does not meet the requirements for completing the most beautiful movements, but at least they must ensure that they are horizontal and vertical. In short, for children who are just learning to dance, line is the key among keys. During the exam, some children looked particularly cute and lovable when they stood there, but as soon as they started dancing, their necks retracted. This puzzled me. Why did the more they danced, the more ugly they became. What's more, the shape of the spine is not particularly good, which is even worse.

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